Ball State prepared to face former coach Stan Parrish at Eastern Michigan

6:25 PM,
Sep. 20, 2013

FILE - Former Ball State football coach Stan Parrish.

Written by

Ben Breiner
bbreiner@muncie.gannett.com

In the natural flow of college coaching shifts, it's not uncommon for players to occasionally run into their former coach.

But talk to some of Ball State's veteran football players, and they don't seem to think much of facing their former head coach in Stan Parrish on Saturday.

Parrish built a series of extremely successful offenses for the Cardinals as a coordinator under Brady Hoke and ascended to take over the program 2009 after Hoke left. But Parrish's departure was unceremonious when it ended two seasons later, following a 6-19 run. ...